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Lalli Tower hits snag

Lalli Tower, the new 110-story office-building, retail-industrial-commercial-residential complex scheduled to be constructed in Acton, has hit a snag, according to the Commonwealth's Transportation Czar, John X. Macpherson.

"The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry," said Macpherson, quoting the poet Robert Burns.

"We have been transporting Lalli Tower fully constructed by barge to Boston, and we hit an underpass along the Erie Canal," he said. "I thought someone had measured all the clearances, but I guess we missed one. Hey, mistakes happen, this is government work," he shrugged.

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